War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 363 The Helper Hiding in the Dark

In the cold, rainy and windy night, Wei Ran wore a Soviet cloak and waited patiently in the bushes by the side of the road. By the way, he also put on the German leather boots he got in Rzhev.

More than half an hour ago, the car had turned back and left, but the sidecar motorcycle that the chain dog Adam was riding on never came back.And there was no movement from Siren Tavern.

Taking out the portable flagon and taking a sip of the cool tequila, Wei Ran was about to stand up and move around to warm up, but a bunch of dazzling headlights lit up at the Kraken Tavern in the distance.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately got up and walked to the side of the road, with his head lowered, holding a portable jug in his hand, he walked slowly towards the opposite direction of Siren Tavern, but at the same time put all his attention behind him .

In less than two minutes, the sidecar motorcycle had already driven behind him.Wei Ran also staggered to the side of the road, holding up the flagon in his hand, taking a sip from time to time.

"Hey! Stop!" The drunken Wei Ran waved at the approaching motorcycle and shouted bossily, "Do you know where Adam is?"

"Who are you?" The German soldier driving the motorcycle subconsciously stopped the motorcycle, but before he could ask, a pistol with a silencer was screwed into his head.

Looking at the empty sidecar, Wei Ran put the portable wine jug in his hand into his pocket, then reached out to turn off the motorcycle light, and asked slowly and in a low voice, "Where's that bastard Adam?"

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Seeing that the soldier's hands had reached his waist, Wei Ran took the first step to pinch the opponent's joints, and at the same time put the muzzle of the gun against the opponent's neck, "What did he ask you to go back for?"

"Take more people to help," the chain dog, who also had a metal plate around his neck, replied spinelessly.

"What help?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"I don't know"

"Last question, who is Adam's immediate supervisor?"

The chain dog "Major David" gave the answer happily.

Before the words were finished, the muzzle of the gun in Wei Ran's hand was lifted abruptly, and he took advantage of the opportunity to hit the opponent's ear with the handle of the gun, and then the gun in his hand disappeared, and both hands hugged the opponent's neck. With a crisp click, the life of the chain dog was ended.

Looking around, Wei Ran pushed him into the sidecar and sat down, then got on the motorcycle and drove a little farther, found a place where no one was around, took off the other person's clothes and put them on himself.

"Bach. It's a good name. It's one sound away from a luxury car."

Wei Ran murmured and hung the opponent's soldier badge and the metal badge of the chain dog logo around his neck, and then temporarily hid the stripped corpse in the shadow behind an oak tree by the side of the road.

Restarting the motorcycle, Wei Ran, who had changed into a chain dog uniform, turned the front of the car and blatantly drove in the direction of the Siren Tavern.

At the same time, in the lobby on the first floor of the tavern, the chain dog Adam was holding Petra, who was almost naked, and chatting with Artur irrelevantly while drinking.

But in fact, ever since he sent the soldiers at the door to leave first, and he planned to live in the tavern tonight, Artur had already raised his vigilance, and even the dumb old man in the room behind the bar had already shaken his hands. He held the pistol that originally belonged to Artur, and was ready to desperately at any time.

"Artur, where is your wife? I heard many people say that you sent her away, but no one knows where you sent her." Adam took a sip from his wine glass, and his gentle tone seemed to be full of Excessively curious.

“Sent to the countryside in Munich”

Artur picked up the wine glass and touched the other party, deliberately making a lewd expression that men can understand, "That old woman will hinder the relationship between me and her sister Mia."

Adam smiled nonchalantly, took another sip of the wine, and then asked abruptly, "Forget about her, will she and the son of the previous owner of this tavern affect your relationship?"

"You mean that little bastard named Erich?" Artur said contemptuously, "Hasn't he already been captured by you? At that time, in order to let him get shot quickly, I returned..."

"You also bought him with two gold bars"

Adam didn't put down his wine glass until he heard the sound of motorcycle engines coming from far to near outside. Under the surprised gaze of the other party, he reached out and wiped the latter's temples, and kneaded a handful of fine sand into Artur's wine glass , "So your little bastard with Jewish blood is also hiding?"

Glancing at Artur's rapidly changing face, Adam, who was sure of winning, picked up his glass again and asked, "So what about tonight? What secrets are you hiding tonight?"

Before Artur could open his mouth, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and someone stood at the door and shouted urgently, "Captain Adam, Major David ordered you to go back as quickly as possible!"

"What's going on?" Adam let go of his hand, motioned Petra to leave his arms, and turned around slowly to ask.

"It's related to Major Felix who just went back!"

Hearing this, Adam picked up the glass and drank the last sip of wine, and said with a smile, "Artur, I hope you can think of a suitable excuse to convince me before dawn."

After finishing speaking, he straightened his collar leisurely, picked up the raincoat on the hanger at the door, and put it on.

However, when he saw the sidecar motorcycle at the door, he realized that something was wrong, but before someone's arm stretched out from the cuff of the raincoat to touch the pistol at his waist, he was caught by a slender Mauser The bayonet was pressed against the lower back.

"Get in the car" Wei Ran whispered, and at the same time the other hand had pinched the root of Adam's chin, pushing him to the side of the sidecar motorcycle.

"Shouldn't you call your boss Artur for help?" Adam asked with a confident look, "You alone can't take me away."

"Not always"

Before Wei Ran could finish his sentence, he had already hugged the opponent's neck with both hands and turned it vigorously, ending his life with a crisp click.

Putting Adam's body into the three-wheeled sidecar and putting it away, Wei Ran glanced in the direction of the second floor and saw that no one was peeping, so he immediately jumped on the motorcycle and drove away without a trace.

At the same time, in a certain room on the second floor of the hotel, a submarine soldier wearing only underwear gently lowered the opened curtain.After hesitating for a moment, he deliberately opened the door angrily, leaned on the railing and shouted towards the first floor, "Artur, why is your dilapidated tavern so noisy tonight? How many times is this?"

"It's that bastard Adam," Arthur said helplessly. "He just called away Major Felix, and now he's called away by Major David."

"I saw it! I just saw these!"

The submariner in his underpants patted the railing impatiently and continued to ask loudly, "I mean, will the chain dog come back next? He's more powerful than the engine of the submarine I work on." Still noisy."

"Tomorrow, why don't you drink whatever you want?" Artur saw that some other rooms on the second floor had also opened their doors and began to complain, and quickly opened up new bargaining chips, "Or this way, I will prepare a barrel of red wine tomorrow. What do you want to drink?"

"That's what you said! I'm very sober now!"

After the submarine soldier finished speaking at the top of his voice, he walked into the room angrily, and then closed the door heavily. Immediately afterwards, there was a slightly exaggerated panting sound from a dancer in the room.

Leaving aside the farce in the Kraken Tavern, Wei Ran was stopped by a bicycle as soon as he left the Kraken Tavern on his motorcycle.

When the person on the bicycle raised the hood of his raincoat, Wei Ran immediately put away his gun. This person was none other than the postman Frank who had made Artur extremely nervous.

"Follow me," Frank said in a low voice, and then he got back on the bike and acted as a guide in front.

Wei Ran, who was following Frank, simply turned off his headlights, and followed him on a gravel road to leave the town, and finally stopped at the edge of a wheat field.

"Why are you here?" Wei Ran asked after turning off the motorcycle engine.

"I've been waiting outside the tavern since you guys set off to get your stuff"

Frank hurriedly explained, pointing to the direction deep in the wheat field and said, "There is a pond there, throw him in it."

"There is still a corpse." Wei Ran took off the chain dog Adam's pistol and handed it to Frank while speaking.

"I'll take care of that corpse"

While Frank was speaking, Adam's body and the motorcycle had been firmly tied together with a rope, and he took out the wallet from the body and put the cash in his pocket, "Weapon yourself Keep it, I don't need it, it will only cause me trouble, now take off your uniform too."

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took off the dog uniform on a leash, stuffed it together with Adam's gun into the gap of the sidecar of the motorcycle, and pressed it down with Adam's body.

After finishing his work here, Frank immediately started the motorcycle, put it in gear, and let it rush down the muddy dirt road with the body that had already cooled down, and drove into this small pond less than 20 meters wide without hesitation. .

Seeing that Wei Ran had started to carefully clean up the traces of the motorcycle, Frank raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then came up to help, and asked curiously, "It seems that this is not the first time you have done this kind of thing?"

"Isn't it the first time for you?" Wei Ran responded with a smile, but Frank just showed a smile as well, obviously not going to continue this topic.

With the cooperation of the two, the remaining rut marks on the shore were cleaned up, and even the tire marks of bicycles were wiped off.

The two of them lifted the bicycle together and left the spot, stepped on the weeds on the side of the road and walked back for a hundred meters. Then Wei Ran sat on the back seat of the bicycle and let Frank carry him back.

In less than half an hour, Frank and Wei Ran stopped at the door of a wooden house on the edge of the town. The two carefully cleaned the mud from the car, and washed away their footprints and shoes with water. Only then did they get into the house in the dark.

"Take a rest here tonight, hang your clothes to dry by the fireplace, and return to the tavern after dawn."

While Frank was speaking, he found a set of clean pajamas and a dry towel and handed them to Wei Ran. Without waiting for the latter to say anything, he left the house and disappeared into the cold rainy night.

(End of this chapter)